Codebook for 103uoachamyear20181024

This file helps you determine which chamber-years you should include in your analysis.  If a chamber-year has "too many" dontuse=1 cases, it should be excluded or otherwise dealt with.  

state 
	Same variable as in main file.  

sid 
	Same variable as in main file.  

year 
	Same variable as in main file.  

sen 
	Same variable as in main file.  

totalseats
	Number of seats in the legislative chamber in question, from aggregate sources.  

seatsup 
	Same variable as in main file.  

seatsup2 
	Same as seatsup, except this is computed from the actual data, and not from an external source.  This should always be the same as seatsup.  With two exceptions, it is.  The two exceptions are caused by general elections that "weren't decisive" in the sense that the winner wasn't seated in the legislature, and a special election a few months later did so.  
fl hs 2014 #13
mn hs 2016 #32b

seatsdontuse 
	seats in dontuse=1 contests summed to the chamber level.  

bigthird1seats 
	Number of seats in a chamber-year that are bigthird=1 when dontuse=0.  

bigthird2seats
	Number of seats in a chamber-year that are bigthird=2 when dontuse=0.  

